YEMEN SAFER OIL TANKER

UN starts transferring 1.14 million barrels of oil from decaying FSO Safer supertanker

epa10767906 A composite picture shows the decaying FSO Safer supertanker moored in the Red Sea on 15 July 2023 (top) and the replacement vessel Nautica in the Red Sea on 17 July 2023 (bottom), off the coast of the western Hodeidah province, Yemen, (issued 25 July 2023). The United Nations began on 25 July 2023 transferring 1.14 million barrels of crude oil from the decaying FSO Safer supertanker moored in the Red Sea into the replacement vessel Nautica, off Yemeni coast. The transfer of crude oil from the 47-year-old FSO Safer supertanker, stranded off Yemen?s Red Sea coast since 1988, is a UN-led operation to prevent a massive oil spill from the beleaguered vessel which has not undergone maintenance since Yemen's war broke out in 2015. It was left abandoned off the Houthis-held port of Hodeidah in the Red Sea, posing a serious risk to the environment off the coast of Yemen due to the possibility of it breaking up or catching fire. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB

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